WATCHES
71businesstraveller.com DECEMBER 2017
9 A LANGE AND SOHNE 1815 CHRONOGRAPH
The 1815 Chronograph isn’t a wholly new
watch, but was given a black dial for the first
time in 2017, a step that elevated it from
excellent to faultless. It was already one of
the best-made hand-wound chronographs
in the world; now, with a black lacquered dial,
it is the best looking, too. Purists will appreciate
that it fills a void left by the equivalent black
dial Patek Philippe 5170 chronograph
(now-discontinued) – at a far lower price,
as well as adding a flyback function. On top
of this, it is the perfect size at 39.5mm, and a
delight to operate.
US$50,300;alange-soehne.com
10 AUDEMARS PIGUET ROYAL OAK
IN YELLOW GOLD
I give this award to the Royal Oak in yellow gold not
because it will make the biggest dent in your wallet
(although given its weight, it will dent most things)
but because it most befits the Lamborghini lifestyle
you will now assume. Unashamedly ostentatious
but so alluring – a real guilty-pleasure watch.
US$55,000; audemarspiguet.com11 MARINE EQUATION MARCHANTE 5887
Watch nerds (and watchmakers) love nothing
more than a complication that takes whole
minutes to explain and serves almost no real
purpose. The running equation of time is exactlythat (in essence, the difference between time
relative to the sun, and time relative to the Earth’s
own rotation), and here Breguet combines it with
a perpetual calendar and tourbillon.
US$230,400; breguet.com12 RADO TRUE STRATUM
2017 was a strong year for watches crying out to
be worn with a black rollneck and stern haircut- Bulgari’s Octo Finissimo or the Ressence Type 1
Squared spring to mind. But Rado takes the gong
for its collaborative True Designer series, the best
of which is the True Stratum, created with Austrian
designer Rainer Mutsch.
US$2,200; rado.com
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